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REMOTE MONITORING INNOVATION ENABLES

SUBSEA SYSTEMS COMMAND AND CONTROL

The AST Group (AST) has developed a fully redundant secure satellite solution, that can be quickly deployed to enable the remote monitoring and control of subsea systems from an FPSO or shoreside location.

For almost 30 years, The AST Group The AST solution allows the client to Increasing Effciency and Reducing (AST) has built its success on its technical securely monitor subsea systems some Costs expertise and dependability. Every market 25 km away from the Floating Production This custom solution delivered and entered, every client serviced, and every Storage and Offoading (FPSO) vessel, developed by AST, enables the customer project delivered benefts from exactly without the need of a traditional physical to retrieve data and control the subsea the same dedication to technical umbilical connection. equipment on the ocean foor, in near excellence, service and support. real time, while remaining on the FPSO. In

Unique Solution addition to this, the cost of ownership of

AST designs, delivers, installs and AST developed a bespoke satellite this solution is lower than that of supports end-to-end remote connectivity solution that provides a installing a traditional umbilical communications solutions and AST can secure IP connection to eliminate the connection between the FPSO vessel and quickly develop bespoke, dependable need for a traditional umbilical the rig. AST’s resilient and secure Iridium communication solutions for the Oil and connection. Certus® satellite solution can be installed

Gas industry. AST’s unique enabling within a few days, providing seamless services such as INTEGRA, IRIS, iRAMS Iridium Certus® provides a secure, high remote monitoring and control services and MyASTPortal empower its performance connection from the Thales quickly to maximise operational time.

customers to optimise their operations, VesseLINK terminal on the FPSO to the make informed decisions quicker and Thales VesseLINK terminal situated on Innovative and Adaptable reduce their costs. AST deliver the rig itself. The hardware and other IT AST delivered a global frst for the use of consistently reliable communications equipment is housed in a bespoke, robust Iridium Certus® technology in this way. solutions through specialist engineering unit to protect it aboard the vessel and on The solution involves multiple technol- and experienced technical teams. the rig. ogy partners working collaboratively to successfully deploy this tailored solution.

Remote Monitoring Innovation AST designed the solution to be fully The solution can be scaled and adapted

In a recent project, one of the world’s redundant to assure secure connectivity to support other applications such as light largest oil and gas service companies and failover. It is independent to any well intervention or monitoring of subsea approached AST to help design a bespoke other network or system on the FPSO or systems from any control centre globally.

operationally critical, end-to-end rig, meaning it will continue to provide

For more information about AST’s bespoke communication solution for its offshore connectivity when other on-board solutions visit www.theastgroup.com project off the west coast of Africa. networks may not be able to.

SMART SOLUTIONS DESIGNED

FOR THE CONNECTED RIG

Communications solutions and services for the Oil and Gas industry to enable operational effciency and reduce costs.